diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'x11/xp/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | x11/xp/DESCR | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/x11/xp/DESCR b/x11/xp/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5eba2f84dd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/x11/xp/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Release 2.0 of xp + +xp started as a filter to simply display stdin in an Athena text +widget. It grew to be a more general file displayer with an emphasis +on ease of browsing and searching, but I've tried to keep its interface +(and implementation) simple and make it useful in shell scripts. + +xp tries to be reasonably efficient in use of memory when displaying +large files, given that the text widgets requires the whole file to be +in memory, by using a read-only text widget and freeing memory when a +file is no longer displayed (so if you go back to a previously +displayed file it gets re-opened). + +xp incorporates Henry Spencer's implementation of egrep style regular +expression matching. The xp distribution includes that part of the +regexp distribution which it requires. + +gerry.tomlinson@ncl.ac.uk November 1995 |